SEQUIM — Police found a 77-year-old Sequim man less than 20 minutes after he was reported missing, and law enforcement officials are crediting the Project Lifesaver program for his quick recovery.
At 2:53 p.m. Monday, Sequim police were notified by the Peninsula Communications dispatch center that the man, an Alzheimer’s patient, had walked away from his home and was last seen around 12:30 p.m.
He was enrolled in the police Project Lifesaver program because of his family’s concerns about wandering behavior. He was wearing the watch-sized transmitter bracelet fitted to him when he was enrolled in the program.
By 3:03 p.m., police members were searching the area around his house using equipment designed to receive the specific radio frequency broadcast by the Project Lifesaver client’s wrist transmitter. The search ended at 3:12 p.m. when officers located the man inside The Lodge, a few blocks from his home.
Project Lifesaver enrollment has a one-time, low-cost fee and is available by the Sequim Police Department through funding from the Ray and Donna Guerin Family Foundation.
For more information, call the Sequim Police Department at 360-683-7227 or visit the city website at www.sequimwa.gov.
Olympic Medical Center opens walk-in clinic
PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center staff and the Port Angeles Ambassadors recently commemorated the opening of the Olympic Medical Physicians Walk-In Clinic in Port Angeles with a ribbon-cutting.
“This is a big step forward and a long-established goal of our board to increase access to care in our community,” said OMC CEO Eric Lewis.
Olympic Medical Physicians hired eight additional providers and 13 support staff for the clinic.
The Walk-In Clinic, located in the new medical office building at 907 Georgiana St., is open and seeing patients with non-life-threatening injuries or conditions seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Construction of the
adjacent parking lot is expected to be completed in the coming weeks, but parking is available by entering the lot from Washington Street.
For more information, phone 360-565-0550 or visit www.olympicmedical.org/walk-in-clinic.
